The Dean of Westminster, with his usual gallantry, selected the
Sunday on which this stigma had been cast on Dr. Colenso to pass upon him a very warm eulogium, in the pulpit of West- minster Abbey. After a hearty panegyric on two great Mis- sionaries, Bishop Patteson and Dr. Livingstone, the Dean went on :—" Such an one (if I may for a moment speak of one who in this respect stands in the foremost rank of living Missionaries) is the South-African Bishop who, of all who have gone to that distant land, has given to it the fullest and largest share of his laborious life ; who was among the first of the Colonial Bishops to translate the Holy Scriptures into the native language of those whom he was sent out to instruct ; who, by dealing with his simple converts not as inferiors, but as companions and. fellow-Christians, had the grace to learn from them with a new- force some old truths, which, though sometimes pushed to ex- cess, have since been, in principle, almost accepted at home ; who stands conspicuous among the Missionaries of our time for the noble self-forgetfulness with which he has sacrificed his dearest prospects, and severed valuable friendships cemented by the most trying circumstances, in order to vindicate the rights of a barbarian tribe, which (whether with or without ground, I do
not say,) he believed to have been unjustly treated through the misapprehension or misjudgment of his fellow-colonists." With such praise uttered in Westminster Abbey,—with his sermon read in the City Church of Oxford,—and occupying as he did, by the permission of the Master of Balliol, the pulpit of that college (where Dr. Mackarness has no jurisdiction) on the afternoon of the same Sunday, Dr. Coleus() will hardly re- member that he was inhibited from preaching by the narrowness of the Bishop whose virtual excommunication will now be seen to be as ineffectual as it was unworthy. If Dean Stanley hadbeen tried at the Cape by such a man as the late Bishop Gray, in all probability he, too, would have been condemned. Yet would Dr. Mackarness dream for a moment of inhibiting Dean Stanley ?
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